I’m pretty sure the video below isn’t what Dr. Spock had in mind back in the 80’s when he released his book on parenting. Taking Facebook and the Internet by storm, it shows the father of a 15 year-old teenage girl, named Tommy Jordan, disciplining his daughter over a rant she posted on her Facebook wall about how much she hated being her parents’ “slave.” While other parents would take away the computer or limit the access the child might have, Jordan decides enough is enough and doles out some good old-fashioned parental justice. He shoots 8 hollow-point bullets into her laptop to let her know that he will not tolerate this behavior.

Entitled “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen,” Jordan’s video is eight-and-a-half minutes of him reading her scathing post out loud to a camera, ending with the punishment mentioned above. His daughter’s complaints range from having to pour cups of coffee to having to do laundry and make beds. She mentions that they have a “cleaning lady” for a reason, and that it isn’t her. Jordan points out to her that the things she is describing are first-world problems, and that she has life pretty easy considering the bed she has to make is her own, and the laundry in question is as well. It turns out the person mentioned as the cleaning lady is doing a bit of the housework in exchange for help that Jordan has been giving her, and not a personal servant. Honestly, Jordan’s daughter comes off as sounding like a spoiled brat in the rant.

The video has gotten almost 8,000 responses on Facebook so far, with people either posting their support and Like votes for Jordan’s actions, or calling him a complete lunatic that shouldn’t be a parent. I for one believe that this type of punishment was appropriate. He had bought the laptop for her so he can decide its fate.

Whatever you think of his discipline methods, his daughter certainly can’t say that she missed the point. Her laptop certainly did in the form of the hollow-point bullets that have rendered it useless.